Neuro Vitality Pty Ltd

Felicia Djamirze is a best-selling author, SPEAKER, trauma therapist, advocate, researcher, and CEO of Neuro Vitality & The Trauma Recovery Network.

A proud First Nations woman and creator of the Growth-Focused Trauma Model, Felicia combines lived experience with academic expertise to transform the way trauma, justice, and recovery are understood. With a conviction history of her own, she works at the intersection of healing and justice supporting people with lived prison experience, survivors of domestic and family violence, and those navigating intergenerational trauma, intellectual disability, and mental health challenges.

Felicia led Australia’s first all-female, Indigenous-led, lived-experience study on Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACE) among people in the criminal justice system centring voices long excluded from research and reform.

A contributor to Women’s Agenda, Mamamia, and About Time Media, Felicia writes about the intersections of gender, power, and trauma with fierce honesty and social insight. Her monthly mental health column in About Time, the national prison newspaper, delivers accessible, practical tools for those navigating incarceration and recovery.

In 2024, Felicia was named Most Innovative Woman of the Year at the International Business Awards. Her foundation in social sciences and counselling, combined with qualifications in journalism, legal services, community services, and communications, grounds her work in both empathy and evidence.

As a sought after speaker and respected expert voice in the media, Felicia tackles topics including family and domestic violence criminal justice reform, mental wellbeing, the feminisation of poverty, domestic violence, and women’s offending. Her approach is raw, real, and deeply human offering practical, holistic, and culturally informed pathways toward healing and social change.

Media enquiries

publicity@affirmpress.com.au

Advocacy portfolio

Indigenous Stop Domestic Violence Conference

HILTON, GOLD COAST
OCTOBER 2025
Delivering a compelling talk on healing justice, intergenerational trauma, and the criminalisation of survival. Drawing on her lived experience and clinical expertise, she explored how trauma, poverty, and systemic inequity intersect to trap women in cycles of violence and disadvantage.
Closing Planetary Community Legal Centre National Conference

CANBERRA, AUSTRALIA
SEPTEMBER 2025
Felicia delivered a plenary address at the Community Legal Centres Conference, sharing insights from her work at the intersection of trauma, justice, and social reform. Her talk explored the lived realities behind women’s criminalisation, the impacts of trauma-informed practice within the legal sector, and the urgent need for systemic empathy in community justice. Drawing from both professional expertise and lived experience, Felicia challenged delegates to rethink how law, healing, and accountability can coexist.
Scientific review committee member the 11th World Conference on Women's Studies

BALI, INDONESIA
MAY 2025
The purpose of the World Conference on Women’s Studies is to offer participants an enriching opportunity to deepen knowledge of global feminism along with the theoretical, policy, and personal dimensions of Women’s Studies scholar-activism worldwide, and enacting visions of a more equitable and liberal world.
The 8th International Conference on FUTURE OF WOMEN

AMBASSADOR HOTEL BANGKOK THAILAND
FEBRUARY 2025
Presentation: The feminisation of Poverty: Increasing vulnerabilities to gender-based violence and criminal justice involvement for women and girls.
Presentation: Sexual Coercion a critical dimension of violence against women and girls.
The Future of Women 2024 unites diverse research, stories, and case studies worldwide, in parallel sessions while offering many networking and publishing opportunities. Discover the latest trends and challenges in the field at this leading conference.
Makati City Jail Female Dorm

MANILA, PHILLIPINES
MAY 2024
Felicia recently visited Makati City Jail Female Dorm in the Philippines as part of a research and cross-cultural knowledge sharing trip. The visit focused on exploring the intersections of trauma, rehabilitation, and justice for women in custody, while fostering international dialogue on culturally informed approaches to recovery and reform.
Most Innovative Woman Of The Year 2024

Awarded for the creation of the Growth Focused Trauma Care Model and advocacy work for the rights of women and children impacted by violence and Trauma.
Board Director, SELF Projects

2024-CURRENT
SELF envisions a world where formerly incarcerated women are given tools and resources to build self determined lives to participate in the community, free from shame, stigma, disadvantage or
discrimination.
AUSTRALIAN AND NEW ZEALAND SOCIETY OF CRIMINOLOGY, NAVIGATING VARIANCE: INTERSECTIONALITY IN CRIMINOLOGY

UNIVERSITY OF CANTERBURY NEW ZEALAND
DECEMBER 2024
Presentation: The feminisation of poverty and implications with involvement with the justice system.
ADDICTIONZ CONFERENCE

JW MARRIOTT GOLD COAST
APRIL 2024
Presentation: Exploring the Interconnectedness of Women's Offending Behavior, Drug Use, and Trauma.
Sectoral collaboration and create a platform for knowledge sharing, case studies and learning opportunities to advance the prevention, treatment and recovery of patients and give professionals access to the latest research, projects, programs and strategies to help meet the diverse and complex needs of their clients.
Justice reform initiative's 17th Reintegration puzzle conference

RYDGES, WORLD SQUARE SYDNEY
JUNE 2024
Presentation: Exploring the Relationship between Adverse Childhood Experiences and Offending Behaviour. First Nations/Lived Experience Designed and Led Study.
Presented with Tahlia Isaac Adams CEO of Strong Empowered Living Free.
Frontline Mental Health Conference

JW MARRIOTT GOLD COAST
MARCH 2024
Presentation: PTSD to PTG, Harnessing Post-Traumatic Growth for Personal Transformation.
At the Frontline Mental Health Conference you will discover research, innovations and treatment techniques from mental health experts, meet with fellow sector workers, hear from sector leaders and unite to improve the mental health care and wellbeing of first responders - during training, whilst serving and in post-service.
First Nations Strong Women National Conference & Global Domestic Violence Conference

THE HILTON CAIRNS
FEBRUARY 2024
Keynote presentation: Trauma-informed interventions for women impacted by violence.
The Global Domestic Violence Conference brings together professionals, academics, advocates, and survivors from around the world to address and prevent domestic violence. The event offers keynote sessions, workshops, and networking opportunities to share best practices and collaborate on strategies to end domestic violence.
The 7th International Conference on FUTURE OF WOMEN

AMBASSADOR HOTEL BANGKOK THAILAND
FEBRUARY 2024
Presentation: Trauma-Informed Interventions for criminalised women and gender-based implications.
The Future of Women 2024 unites diverse research, stories, and case studies worldwide, in parallel sessions while offering many networking and publishing opportunities. Discover the latest trends and challenges in the field at this leading conference.
The Inaugural Asia-Pacific Conference on Women’s Mental Health

THE LANGHAM MELBOURNE
OCTOBER 2023
Presentation on Complex Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder & Trauma
Trauma-informed Interventions, prevention for women impacted by the justice system.
World Conference on Gender and Women's Studies

ROEHAMPTON UNIVERSITY, LONDON UK
NOVEMBER 2023
Presentation: Trauma-informed care for women exposed to violence.
STOP DOMESTIC VIOLENCE CONFERENCE

HOTEL GRAND CHANCELLOR HOBART, TASMANIA
NOVEMBER 2023
Presentation: Why Are Our Prisons Full of Domestic Violence Victims?
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